Wow, this is enough to scare the shit out of you. Not so much at the strength of Al Qaeda, as the rampant incompetence that has afflicted almost everyWow, this is enough to scare the shit out of you. Not so much at the strength of Al Qaeda, as the rampant incompetence that has afflicted almost every effort of our government to fight them. Clarke is biased, but mainly in terms of having tunnel-vision for just his issue, IE counter-terrorism and Al Qaeda. However, he turned out to be totally right about said issue, so it gets hard to discount his criticisms of all involved. I don't agree with him totally on methods, but I do agree that this was a very necessary clearcut through the enormous of morass of bullshit that has sprung up around the terrorism issue....more